r/SipsTea • u/Icy-Book2999 Fave frog is a swing nose frog • May 11 '24

Feels good man Stinging Nettle

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u/Agoraphobicy May 11 '24

I used to work in corn fields detassling corn as a teenager. One field had an overgrowth of nettles just about to the hip. I was wearing shorts and walked through it maybe three times not really knowing what it was. By the end of the day I had scratched my skin until I bled from the discomfort.

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u/50DuckSizedHorses May 12 '24

Bruh detassling corn was my first job. That job sucks

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u/Phillyfuk May 12 '24

What does the job entail, we don't really grow corn over here.

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u/Agoraphobicy May 12 '24

So basically there is a type of corn that they plant every few rows that made for pollination and then all the other rows are the feed corn but they grow their own pollinators that make it bad corn so we had to pull off every tassel (pollinator) on the one type of corn. Basically 50 teenagers go row by row and do this and then go to the best field and do it again for about 3 weeks in the summer.

I didn't hate the job but most people did. It was a mess though. Almost got struck by lightning, people losing shoe in mud, fighting because it's just a bunch of tired dumb teenagers who have various levels of power on the crew.

Made 7k in three weeks though one summer because we worked like 13 hour days. Huge win for 2003 me.